Well, we didn't see that coming. During the celebration of Yoko Ono's 79th birthday party on Saturday, her son, Sean Lennon, took the time to talk about the First Lady's style.The Chicago Tribune reported Lennon thanking Michelle Obama for inspiring his style before introducing his mother to a crowd of fans:"I want to thank Michelle Obama for my style. Michelle has been my inspiration. I am studying her oeuvre. Her oeuvre is fascinating."

Sean Lennon is best known in music circles. The 36-year-old son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono has released three solo albums, as well as two full-lengths with girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl under the name Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger (GOASTT). He played with Cibo Matto, collaborated extensively with his mother and worked with The Strokes' Albert Hammond Jr. Right now, he's in the studio producing Muhl's new project, Kemp and Eden, which will be released on their record label Chimera Music.What people might not know, though, is that Lennon is an animation buff. He animated his own video for the song "Would I Be the One," a T. Rex cover that appeared on his album Friendly Fire, as an homage to Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage). He also translated and sang music for the French animated film A Monster in Paris, which premieres on the West Coast March 10 at the Los Angeles Animation Festival.

ExaminerMarch 3, 2012Sean Lennon's Beatles' tributes have been something special

Sean Lennon's music has always been, for the most part, quite eclectic and distinctive. But if you listen to him do Beatles songs, another side emerges.He's always shown influences of both his mother and his father, but hear him do just Beatles songs and he sounds very close to his dad. Sean Lennon's music has always been, for the most part, quite eclectic and distinctive. But if you listen to him do Beatles songs, another side emerges.He's always shown influences of both his mother and his father, but hear him do just Beatles songs and he sounds very close to his dad. Take this cover of "Julia" from the tribute to his father at Radio City Music Hall just after the 9/11 tragedy in 2001, which he dedicates to his mom Yoko Ono. It's tender and gorgeous. (The pictures of his dad in the background add nicely to the mood.).

Max Cavalera has been sitting on the concept for Soulfly's new album, "Enslaved," for 14 years, picking up on the slavery theme that ran through a handful of highlights on Soulfly's self-titled debut. He went off-topic for the final track, though, bringing in his kids for reinforcements on an angry cry for justice in the death of Dana Wells, his stepson, who died in 1996 in a North Phoenix car crash. Cavalera and his family believe another vehicle intentionally ran Wells off the road.The Brazilian rocker who first rose to fame in the '80s as the guitar-playing vocalist for heavy-metal icons Sepultura moved to Phoenix in the '90s after marrying Wells' mother, Gloria. Soulfly's latest effort is the first he's recorded in Phoenix, working with producer Chris "Zeuss" Harris at Tallcat Studios.Here's Cavalera on "Enslaved," to be released on Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Q: Speaking of home, how did Phoenix come to be your home ?A: It was inspired by my wife. We met in 1989 when Sepultura played New York and she was managing Sacred Reich. She had a bar here called The Bootlegger. Bands used to play there all the time, like Nuclear Assault and Exodus. Even Poison, I think. So I met her and she started managing Sepultura. Then, eventually, we started going out and we ended up getting married. So my logical move was to move here with her. We lived in Paradise Valley, two blocks from where I live now, which is also in Paradise Valley. Then, we have a house in New River, which is kind of a weekend house -- very beautiful, seven acres. That's where I wrote the song with Sean Lennon for "Primitive," called "Son Song." I took Sean to the mountain house and we came up with all the riffs and most of the lyrics in this mountain house, which is really beautiful, surrounded by cactus and everything. So I love Phoenix, man. Outside Brazil, this is my home.

Q: That song with Sean Lennon is great.A: He'd never been to Arizona his whole life so he was very excited. He'd never been to the desert, so I drove him around. And he didn't want to stay in a hotel. He wanted to stay in my House. I was like, "OK, if you can put up with my kids waking up at 7 in the morning and dogs barking" (laughs). He didn't care. He was here for, like, a week.

Asian Correspondent March 22, 2012Opinion: My Hafu life – not half a life

“If, like me, you are Japanese and English, you will in Japan be considered white, and in America be considered Asian. This can be lonely at times.”Reverse racism is something that you come across a lot when you’re of mixed race. It’s never something that I’ve taken offense to, but questions about my unusual heritage of a Caucasian mother and Japanese father (ordinarily, it’s the other way around) can become tedious.So was being stopped on the streets of Tokyo as a child and having schoolgirls include me in their photos.Sean Lennon, the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono probably best summed up what being half Japanese, half Caucasian is like.

Yoko Ono is nothing less than a cultural icon. From her early years in New York's artistic avant-garde, to her marriage and collaborations with Beatle John Lennon, to her creative activism promoting peace, Ono has made, and continues to make, a powerful impact on our world. Sean Lennon--Ono and John Lennon's son born in 1975--is a creative musician in his own right, and has been performing with and directing his mother's Plastic Ono Band for years. Spinning On Air host/producer David Garland invited Sean to create a playlist of his mother's music, and present it with her on Mother's Day.

Written by Haale Gafori and Dougie Bowne, featuring Sean Lennon on back-up vocals and bass, Thomas Bartlett on keyboards, Dougie Bowne on drums. From the film 'Caravan of Light' by Sahar Farmanfarmanian. 'Andar deleh maast' means 'Is in our hearts...' loose translation of the first line: what is dearest in us is the fire in our hearts that never dies

WNYCMay 10, 2012WNYC presents KINGS COUNTY, a Series of Live Radio Variety Hours hosted by Kurt Andersen, on Sunday, June 10 & Friday, June 29 at Galapagos Art Space and Sunday, June 24 at The Bell House.

WNYC presents Kings County Hosted by Kurt AndersenA Series of Live Radio Variety Hours featuring Standup Comedy, Live Music and Interviews.

The Venetian Las Vegas presented a special screening of the film adaptation of Rock of Ages at Landmark Cinemas on Wednesday, June 6.Attendees at the screening included Matchbox 20's Rob Thomas with wife Marisol Thomas, Padma Lakshmi, Dylan Lauren, Irina Shayk, Lisa Ling, and Sean Lennon.

John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and their son Sean have launched a celebrity coalition campaigning against drilling techniques in the natural gas industry which could cause the contamination of water sources across America.

Martha Wainwright’s new album features guest spots from Sean Lennon, Nels Cline, Yuka Honda and more.Come Home To Mama is the first collection of new material since 2008’s I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too, and was produced by Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto.

Musician Rufus Wainwright has tied the knot.Publicist Bianca Bianconi confirmed Wainwright and Jorn Weisbrodt were married in a ceremony Thursday.People reports the 39-year-old musician and the artistic director of the Luminato Festival were married by close friend and artist Justin Vivian Bond in a ceremony in Montauk on Long Island.

The New York Times8/23/2012Coalition of Celebrities Speaks Out Against Gas Drilling

More than 140 artists and celebrities, including Lady Gaga and Paul McCartney, have formed a coalition to try to persuade Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to bar the use of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas in parts of New York State.Yoko Ono and her son, Sean Lennon, plan to host an event Wednesday in New York City to introduce the coalition, called Artists Against Fracking, which their publicists are billing as the mother-son duo’s “first ever activist partnership.”

Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono made a plea last month with a song titled “Don’t Frack My Mother” as they launched Artists Against Fracking, their campaign uniting celebrity voices to protest the imminent threat of hydraulic fracturing. But despite these efforts — and those of thousands of other New Yorkers – New York governor Andrew Cuomo is close to approving fracking in a few counties along the Marcellus Shale Formations according to a report by CBS.

The New York TimesAugust 27, 2012Written by Sean LennonDestroying Precious Land for Gas

On the northern tip of Delaware County, N.Y., where the Catskill Mountains curl up into little kitten hills, and Ouleout Creek slithers north into the Susquehanna River, there is a farm my parents bought before I was born.

In a recent New York Times Op-Ed piece, Sean Lennon called on New York State officials to reject the drilling process for natural gas called fracking. He is working with his mother, Yoko Ono, on this controversial issue, and they have formed an organization that has attracted more than 140 other artists. They talked about their cause with Gayle King.

Examiner8/30/2012Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and two Beatles unite in campaign against fracking

A new group launched by Yoko Ono and son Sean Lennon is reuniting the widow of John Lennon with his fellow Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in opposition to hydraulic fracking. The group was announced at a special coalition event at Paley Center For Media on Wednesday in New York City.

Artist: Mystical Weapons (Sean Lennon and Greg Saunier) Song: "Mechanical Mammoth" Album: Mystical Weapons "I met Sean when Deerhoof opened for Plastic Ono Band and we got along so fine that when he needed a local opener for Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger's San Francisco show one time, he said 'Why don't we do an improv duo?'" Greg Saunier tells Rolling Stone. "We had such a good time. Sean is an instant composer."

Been as busy as a bee in a tar bucket, Kevin Smith is set to distribute Alter Egos, an indie superhero comedy he didn’t direct.His Smodcast Pictures was set to help out scrappy newcomer Jordan Galland‘s low-budget film and now the first full-length trailer has arrived.

Directed and written by Galland (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead) the flick stars the mostly unknown cast as Kris Lemche, Danny Masterson, Christine Evangelista and Sean Lennon who also contributed an original musical score.